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Housing Market Spotlight: How to read national housing trends in your local market
Minneapolis, Denver and Chicago show how supply, seller behavior and buyer demand can reveal where local housing markets are shifting ]]>
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Why the 2026 mortgage layoff cycle looks different
Mortgage industry faces renewed job pressure amid flat volume and tech gains ]]>
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Mortgage applications stall as rate inertia squeezes buyers
Purchase demand fell as borrowers faced renewed affordability pressure with rates stuck at 6.77%
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The Home Equity Opportunity Is Back. Can Your Operations Keep Up?
The opportunity in home equity has moved from theoretical to practical. Homeowners withdrew $47 billion in equity in Q1 2026, the highest first quarter total observed since 2021.
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California Dreamin’: $130M Bel Air Estate Tops July’s Priciest Home Sales
July’s top four priciest home sales were in Southern California, followed by two Manhattan townhouses, a handful of Florida estates and an Arizona compound. A famous Bel Air estate known as Casa Encan
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Weekly mortgage demand stalls along with interest rates, but rates are now moving higher again.
Mortgage rates were unchanged last week, as was mortgage demand, and total volume remains lower than year-ago levels.
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2026 Housing Alignment Report: America’s Housing Market Looks More Balanced, Until You Look at Who Is Still Shopping
By examining three key metrics: median listing price versus median price across views, listing share versus view share by price tier, and views per property by price segment, we uncover clear K-shaped
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Starter Homes Vanish as Luxury Thrives: The Reality of the K-Shaped Housing Market Happening Now
The housing market is stubbornly K-shaped, with starter-home demand retreating while luxury buyers remain resilient despite growing inventory.
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Mortgage rate shift sparks jump in loan defects
Legal and compliance defects rose in the first quarter as income and employment defects eased, new report shows The post Mortgage rate shift sparks jump in loan defects appeared first on Scotsman Guid
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FHFA gets just five comments on plan to repeal regulation at Federal Home Loan Banks
Most commenters supported eliminating the notice process, while one urged FHFA to preserve core risk-management safeguards The post FHFA gets just five comments on plan to repeal regulation at Federal
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Credit-Score Choice Is Becoming Part Of The Mortgage Sales Pitch
Credit scoring is becoming more than an underwriting decision. It could soon become another reason borrowers shop lenders.One-third of consumers said they would actively seek another mortgage lender i
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Where Sellers Are Cracking: The Housing Markets Giving Buyers More Leverage
We know the narrative: The housing market is too expensive. That, however, appears to be changing.